Sol Saks, the creator of the hit 1960s series Bewitched, died Saturday at 100 years old, Variety reports. The television writer and playwright passed away Saturday of respiratory failure resulting from pneumonia. Saks’ main contribution to the series was the pilot; he never wrote any other Bewitched episode.
Saks began his career in radio, and penned episodes for TV series like My Favorite Husband. He also wrote the 1966 film Walk, Don’t Run, starring Cary Grant.
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Lindsay Lohan has returned to Los Angeles Superior Court to determine if her grand felony charge will go to trial. The actress, who arrived at about 10 a.m. PT, has pleaded not guilty to charges that she had stolen a $2,500 necklace from a jewelry store in Venice, Calif., in January. During the hearing today, Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner will examine the evidence against Lohan and decide whether or not a trial will be scheduled. Employees of Kamofie & Co., the jewelry store owners, will be present at the hearing to give testimony.
Lohan has already rejected two different plea deals (and, therefore, jail time), maintaining her innocence. Should she go to trial, her legal troubles could affect her roles in two different upcoming films, Gotti: Three Generations (which producers announced she had joined as Kim Gotti after previously telling reporters she was no longer in the running to play Victoria Gotti) and Mob Street. Check back on EW.com for developments regarding Lohan’s hearing.
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Madelyn Pugh Davis, a pioneering female comedy writer who co-wrote the pilot episode of I Love Lucy — and worked with Lucille Ball for four decades — has died after a brief illness, the L.A. Times reports. Davis, along with her writing partner Bob Carroll Jr. and writer/producer Jess Oppenheimer, penned over 125 episodes of Ball’s signature sitcom during its first four seasons. She continued writing for the show through the rest of its six-year run and also contributed to Ball’s next projects: The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here’s Lucy, and the comedian’s last series, Life With Lucy. Davis and Carroll were twice nominated for Emmy awards for their work on the original Lucy; they also received the Writers Guild of America’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for achievement in television writing in 1992. “Madelyn was such a class act,” Ball’s daughter Lucie Arnaz told the Times. “She was a very private person, very soft-spoken, genteel, feminine — all those lovely words you associate with great ladies. And yet she had the ability to write this wacky, insane comedy for my mother.“
In Plain Sight star Mary McCormack is expecting her third child with producer Michael Morris, People reports. The baby will join older siblings Margaret, 6, and Rose, 3. According to People, the pregnancy will be written into the series. “The upside of being knocked up along with my character — no need for stunt boobs,” McCormack tells People.
Former talk show host Leeza Gibbons, 54, has wed fiancé Steven Fenton, 41, People reports. The couple married Wednesday at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the location of their first date. “We are living the fairy tale,” Gibbons told People. “We have so much respect for each other and grow stronger together … always so grateful to have been give another chance at love.” Two of Gibbons children from a previous relationship, 21-year-old Lexi and 19-year-old Troy, officiated the wedding. Gibbons has another child, 13-year-old Nathan, from a previous relationship.
Varsity Blues actress Amy Smart, 35, is engaged to 34-year-old Trading Spaces handyman Carter Oosterhouse, Smart’s rep confirmed to People today. The couple — she’s also known for her role in The Butterfly Effect opposite Ashton Kutcher, and he hosts HGTV home improvement show Carter Can — began dating last November. No further details were released about when the impending nuptials will take place.
30 Rock star Jane Krakowski gave birth to her first child, a son, Bennett Robert Godley, on April 13 in New York City, her rep confirmed today to People. Bennett is the first child for the 42-year-old actor and her fiancé Robert Godley. “Bennett is an amazing, healthy sweet boy and we are both just crazy in love with him,” Krakowski told People.
Actor Ethan Hawke is expecting a second child with his wife, Ryan, People reports. The couple already has one child, two-year-old Clementine Jane. Hawke also has two children with his ex-wife, Uma Thurman: Twelve-year-old Maya and 9-year-old Levon.
Lindsay Lohan will play the daughter-in-law of late mob boss John Gotti — and wife of imprisoned mobster “Junior” Gotti — in the film Gotti: Three Generations, according to a press release from Fiore Films. (A Fiore representative for Gotti had earlier told EW that Lohan was out of the running to play another role in the film: Victoria Gotti, the daughter of Gotti Sr. and sister of Gotti Jr.) As part of the deal, Lohan has also agreed to star in another Fiore film, Mob Street, written by Chazz Palminteri. Lohan joins a cast that includes John Travolta as Gotti Sr. and Joe Pesci as Gotti subordinate Angelo Ruggierio. The film will shoot in the fall, with an expected release date of late 2012.
Tim Hetherington, an award-winning British war photographer who co-directed the award-winning Afghanistan documentary, Restrepo, has been killed in Libya, ABC News has reported. Yesterday, Hetherington had tweeted, “In beseiged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.”
There are reports that Chris Hondros, a Pulitzer-Prize nominated photographer, was also killed in the assault, and three other journalists were also wounded.
